Mounting SCSI disks
11 am vvriting hoping you can either help or possibly point me to i somevvhere I can obtain guidance.
I installed SuSE Linux and am having trouble getting it to mount the hard drive on my Adaptec Card. The card and disk show on the dev. list. I think I need a script or something to make Linux mount the drive.
Can you help?
Dave, via email
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¥ **** ı capabilities to access the controller, and thus mount any device attached to it. The general vvay to mount a partition on a SCSI device is;
# mount/dev/sdal /mnt/partiöon Unless you are using devfs, the drives vvill be sda, sdb, sdc and so forth, and the partitions are numbered exactly as they are on an ATA drive.
Once you are sure that you are able to mount the partition, you can edit /etc/fstab and add the appropriate entry to have the SCSI drive mounted at boot time.
If you do not have the driver loaded for your particular card, you vvill need to check to see vvhich chipset it is using, and either compile in, or build as a modüle, the required kernel capabilities.
If you choose to use a loadable modüle, then you need to add something similar to the follovving to /etc/modules.conf, in order for the modüle to